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Tomorrow our school is hosting the Western Region Invitational Robotics Competition. We are hosting schools in the Western Region to learn about First Lego League Robotics and compete in team work and robot challenges.

This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, October 23, 2015.

By: Jacob Bursey, Kori Noel, Alessandra LeBlanc, and Aaron White

Jeanette Higgins and daughter,
Grace Brake-Higgins checking out some books outside the school Scholastic Book
Fair this week.

Israela Ngania, with
her younger sister ,Sara Ngania, Kaitlyn Coade and Ella
Rashleigh during a classroom family visit where the students discussed schools
of the past.

Aaron White (back) and Isaac Buckingham work with the school's new
robot in preparation for the upcoming Western Region Invitational Robotics
Competition we are hosting this weekend.

Our Scholastic Book Fair was
a huge success again this year. We sold $3,390.00 in books. This will bring new
books into our classrooms. Thank you to all of our school families for their
support. Thank you also to Mrs. George and her team of teachers for helping
with the fair.

Our
school hosted a “Make the Cut” fundraiser on Sunday for the Canadian Cancer
Society. Grade one student, Meteghan Kane, and level one student, Maria Jessica
De Almeida, collected donations and cut off their hair to donate to the
Canadian Cancer Society. Mallory Chambers was unable to attend on Sunday, but
donated her hair to Ms. Tarragh Shannahan in chapel on Monday morning.

This
week we celebrated Waste Reduction Week. The week started with a blue theme day
for water conservation and the launch of the Recycle My Cell Campaign. On
Tuesday we went paper free, Wednesday we brought litterless lunches, on
Thursday we upcycled unwanted items, and today we are conserving water.

Our
cross country running team participated in the Regional Cross Country Running
race in Stephenville on Wednesday afternoon.

Immaculate
Heart of Mary School will be collecting used and broken cell phones until
November 19. Please help us by bringing in your used or broken cell phones or
calling the school to make your donation.

The
Student Leadership Council is busy preparing a spooky haunted house for
Halloween next week. Don’t forget to wear your costumes to school. We will be
hosting our annual Halloween costume parade.

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Congratulations
to Jemma Butler, Keira Clarke, Ethan Lahey and Emily Hindy who won the candy
guessing game at the book fair. Congratulations to Lauren Green who was the
closest guess for the number of pages contest at the book fair. Congratulations
to Claire Patey who won the $25 family door prize and to her class who also won
$25!

Congratulations
to Carter Bromley who won third place in the grade four boys race hosted by St.
Gerard’s Elementary School last week. Our team was represented at the race by
26 runners. Good work everyone!

Congratulations
to Rebeakah Calbert who won a silver medal in a provincial orienteering, map
and compass competition with the Royal Canadian Army Cadets last weekend in St.
John’s.

Congratulations
to grade eight students, Madison Noel and Anna MacKenzie who won first prize
for their pumpkin in the junior high category at the AgriFoods and Garden Show
on Sunday.

CLASS NEWS

The
junior kindergarten classes are talking about Halloween. The children are
getting very excited to celebrate with their friends. They are enjoying talking
about ghosts, bats, pumpkins, and jack o’lanterns. They cannot wait until next
week!

Mme.
Foley’s Kindergarten French Immersion class celebrated les fêtes de bleu et
vert this week. They made haunted houses out of milk and juice cartons for the
upcycling day on Thursday. They were very pleased and proud to lead in chapel
this week for the very first time.

Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is starting a new unit in science on
plants. The students are working on the letter “e” and making Halloween crafts
this week.

Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class is learning to represent numbers that
are larger than ten. They are working on a new Halloween song and doing a lot
of activities based on the song. They are going to make monsters using recycled
cereal boxes.

Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is writing Halloween alliteration and
illustrating their pieces. They really enjoyed their guided imagery in religion
where they imaged they were back in Israel during Jesus’ time. The star of the
week is Heidi.

Ms. Park’s
grade two class is making spooky silhouettes in art for Halloween. They are
learning how to count money in math. They are also learning what happens to
water in the air. For a fun activity they are making clouds.

Mme.
O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class continued their unit in social studies talking about the past and how it
has affected our future. They realize that there are many people in our past
that have influenced our lives in a positive way.

Mme.
Moss’ grade three, four and five French Immersion class is working on spooky
Halloween themes in art. They are revising stories in French and writing
acrostic poems with adjectives. The grade four students teamed up with the
grade four English class for a fun science experiment.

Ms.
Horner’s grade three and four class had a great time at the AgriFoods and
Garden Show last. The students are working on Halloween themed writing. The
class welcomed Ms. Susanna Appelinwho
is working with the class through an Access partnership with Grenfell College.

Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class have been working on homonyms in language
arts class. The grade five students are finishing off biographies on Canadian
and international heroes. The grade six students are busy writing descriptive
paragraphs for Halloween. In health, the grade five students are writing comics
about the respiratory system. The grade six students are excited to start work
on their First Lego League Robotics missions for the Intermediate Skills
Challenge.

Mr.
Drew Nadon’s junior high to level two class had an excellent field trip to the
Chrappa’s property on Friday. The students picked apples from the orchard and
enjoyed a marshmallow and wiener roast. The students have been busy this week
preparing for the Western Region Invitational Robotics Competition we are
hosting tomorrow.

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COMING UP...

Tomorrow
our school is hosting the Western Region Invitational Robotics Competition. We
are hosting schools in the Western Region to learn about First Lego League
Robotics and compete in team work and robot challenges.

The
grade six to level 2 students will be having a leaf raking fundraiser on
Saturday, November 7 (weather permitting). Please call the office to book your
lawn today.

On
Friday, we held our annual Thanksgiving Day dinner. Our meal was prepared by
the Quality Inn and served by parent volunteers. Thank you for the delicious
feast. The Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten choir sang “Hello” and “The
Thanksgiving Song”. We welcomed members of the community, clergy and volunteers
to our dinner.

Our
Student Leadership Council organized a food drive for the Corner Brook Food
Bank. Thank you to the many families that donated.

On
Wednesday, our school hosted our fall Scholastic Book Fair Family Event. Thank
you to Mrs. George, our teacher volunteers and Mr. Bryan McCarthy for giving
their time to this event.

This
year our annual vegetable fundraiser was a huge success. Our families sold 740
bags of vegetables! Thank you to everyone who supported this fundraiser.

Today
our students in grades three to six are attending the Agrifoods and Garden Show
at the Corner Brook Civic Centre. The Agrifoods and Garden Show also sponsored
a pumpkin decorating contest. Our classes each decorated pumpkins for the
contest. The pumpkins are now on display at the show!

We
are collecting children’s winter clothing for the Humber Rotary. Clothing
donations are being accepted until October 15.

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Congratulations
to Clare Coleman, Carly Johannesen, Aria Kazerouni, Alessandra LeBlanc, and
Colin Spencer who were chosen to represent our school at the Agrifoods and
Garden Show Agriculture Spelling Bee at the Corner Brook Civic Centre tonight.
Arabella LeBlanc is also attending as an alternate speller.

Congratulations to our cross country runners who
participated in a running meet at C.C. Louglin School last Wednesday.
Congratulations to the members of the running team who participated. In the
grade four boys’ race we had Carter Bromley, Jacob Blackwood, Noah Evans,
Garbiel Rowsell, Matthew Kemp, Caleb Rashleigh, Cole Boyd-Martyn, and Ty
Dumaresque. In the grade four girls’ race we had Molly George, Jemma Butler,
Brooke Watton, Kate Murphy, Candace Johannesen, Katerine Noel, Alyssa Power,
Charlotte Mercier, Jaidyn Prosper, Isabelle Mercier, Trinity Rouse, Reyd Ward
and Natalie Parsons. In the grade five
races we had Clare Coleman, Carly Johannesen, Aria Kazerouni, and Jacob Bursey.
In the grade six race we had Cole Dumaresque.

CLASS NEWS

The
junior kindergarten classes are learning about fall. They went on a nature walk
around the school, and made crafts with their findings. The children are
enjoying the fall colours.

Mme.
Foley’s Kindergarten French Immersion class had a very busy week. The students
really enjoyed the delicious Thanksgiving meal last week. One of their
favourite activities this week was decorating the pumpkins!

Mrs.
Hodder’s Kindergarten English class had lots of fun painting and decorating
pumpkins this week. They are working on the letter “L” in language arts. The
students enjoyed visiting the book fair this week!

Mrs.
George’s grade one English class is doing some spooky Halloween writing this
week. They are learning about natural features and their attributes in social
studies. Their star of the week is Hala.

Mme.
Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class removed the old tomato plants that were
no longer producing tomatoes. The class have composted the old plants. The
lettuce they planted is really sprouting! This week they had fun decorating the
pumpkins that were donated from the AgriFoods and Garden Show. They also
learned how to represent numbers with a fun math game.

Ms.
Park’s grade two English class is making bird feeders this week in science.
They are learning odd and even numbers in math and are going to make an “odd”
and “’even” spooky street to go with it.

Mme.
O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion class have been patiently observing their
plants growing in the greenhouse. The class really enjoyed decorating the
pumpkins from the AgriFoods and Garden Show.

Ms.
Horner’s grade three and four class is really looking forward to the Agrifoods
and Garden Show fair today! The grade four students have been busy learning
about the different political parties in Canada. They all cast their vote for
their Member of Parliament on Thursday afternoon.They can’t wait to see who wins!

Mme.
Moss’ grade three, four, and five French Immersion class is looking forward to
the Agrifoods and Garden Show today at the Corner Brook Civic Centre. They are
learning about the fall leaves and tree identification in science. The grade
four and five students loved learning about the upcoming Federal Election as
part of the Student Vote Program.

Mrs.
McCarthy’s grade five and six class is looking forward to the Agrifoods and
Garden Show today. Last week the grade five students really dug the archaeology
dig set up in the school yard for social studies class. They had to use maps
and grids to locate buried treasure outside just like real archaeologists. The
grade six students wrote essays about good governance for Provincial Good
Governance Week. The students were excited to have a say in the Student Vote
Program. They are encouraging everyone to get out and vote on October 19.

Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high to level two class
have been busy this week. On Tuesday, the 1201 English students had their first
quiz on their novel study for “The Giver”. On Wednesday, the whole class took
part in decorating Halloween Pumpkins. For the Brazilian students, this will be
their first celebration of Halloween. The class has been buzzing all week about
the election platforms for the Federal Election next week.

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COMING UP...

Our
school is hosting a Make the Cut Fundraiser on Sunday, October 18, 2015, at 2
pm.

Monday, October 12, 2015

Friday, October 9, 2015

Students and staff at
Immaculate Heart of Mary School collected food items to donate to the local
Food Bank as part of their annual Thanksgiving Day celebration. Grade
five students, Arabella LeBlanc, Colin Spencer, Aria Kazerouni, Clare Coleman,
Emily Payne and Alessandra LeBlanc show some of the items collected for the
food bank.

Heidi Payne and Brooklyn Pittman display the pillows they made
during the afterschool sewing club.

Oliver Carey-MacDonald (right) listens to the heartbeat of his
patient, Lydia Parsons, during the school's medical theme day in aid of the
Western Memorial Radiothon.

Students Daniel Osmond and Brady Green enjoy breakfast at the school's
Kids Eat Smart Breakfast Program during Provincial Smoothie Day.

Today we are enjoying our annual Thanksgiving
Day dinner as a school family. Thank you to The Quality Inn for preparing our
meal today. In addition to dinner, some of our classes are performing a song.
The Student Leadership Council is also making a special presentation to Mrs.
Agnes McCarthy of the Salvation Army Food Bank.

On Wednesday, Ms. Sandra Burden from the Kids
Eat Smart Program visited our school to celebrate Kids Eat Smart Week and Provincial
Smoothie Day. Our students and staff enjoyed fruit smoothies in the breakfast
program before heading to class.In the
afternoon, we celebrated the annual Terry Fox Walk to raise money for the Terry
Fox Foundation.

Our breakfast program welcomes Ms. Kim Youden
as a volunteer this week.

Last Friday we held our annual Medical Theme
Day in aid of the Western Memorial Hospital Foundation Radiothon. We raised $800.25
as of Friday, with more donations coming in this past week. Our donation was
matched by TD Canada Trust to make is $1600.50! This week our total raised was $949.25.
Some of our students visited the radio station to make the presentation and
speak on the radio about our theme day. Marcus Gallant, Aria Kazerouni, Jayden
Lempriere, Anna MacKenzie, Madison Noel and Jose Garcia made the official
presentation on behalf of our school.

Our Apple A Day Fundraiser is underway for
2016. Our school is in the process of planning the fundraiser and acquiring the
prizes for this exciting draw. The fundraiser will be in aid of our music
program.

Student Leadership Council Elections took
place this week. Our Student Leadership Council Prime Minister is Anna
MacKenzie, Deputy Prime Minister is Madison Noel, Secretary is Cameron Peddle,
Primary Representative is Rebekah Calbert. Voting for classroom representatives
will take place in the next few days. Congratulations to all the candidates in
the election.

The girls’ grade seven to level two
basketball team and the boys’ grade seven basketball teams began practicing
this week.

Congratulations to Mrs. McCarthy who ran the
Humber Valley Half Marathon last Sunday.

CLASS NEWS

The junior kindergarten classes are talking
about fire safety and thanksgiving. Everyone is really excited about the turkey
dinner today. Thank you, Quality Inn, for the great meal. The class welcomes
Gracie Colbourne to the junior kindergarten program.

Mme. Foley’s Kindergarten French Immersion
class enjoyed two colour celebration days this week. Monday was le jour
d'orange and Wednesday was le jour de burn et noir! They are having a blast
learning their French colours. On Wednesday they participated in the Terry Fox
walk. They made turkeys this week, too! But don't get the wrong idea! Les
dindes ne sont pas pour le dîner! They are wishing everyone
a joyeux action de grâces this weekend!

Mrs. Hodder’s Kindergarten English class is learning
about fire safety for fire prevention week. They have also been talking about
the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. The students are enjoying their turkey
dinner today.

Mme. Ryan’s grade one French Immersion class is
working on Thanksgiving activities. They did a writing activity about the
things they are thankful for. They are also making turkeys in art class. The
students are looking forward to the long weekend.

Mrs. George’s grade one English class is writing
about all the things they are thankful for this week. They are really enjoying
all the funny turkey books in their classroom library. The star of the week is
Hala. They would like to wish Uriah a very happy 6th birthday, and
all the readers a happy thanksgiving. Gobble, gobble!

Ms. Park’s grade two class is doing many
activities to celebrate Thanksgiving. They are writing a book of instructions
on how to cook a turkey as a class. It is a cute and funny book. They are also
busy writing about things they are thankful for in their lives. They are also
having fun doing Thanksgiving math games and practicing their numbers to 100.

Mme. O’Dell’s grade two French Immersion
class made salsa from their green house tomatoes, onion and garlic! It was
delicious. This week they finished their math unit on patterns and will begin
looking for their patterns in numbers. They wish everyone a great Thanksgiving
week end!

Mme. Moss’ grade three, four and five French
Immersion class had a great week. The students loved the Terry Fox walk on
Wednesday. The grade five students had an archaeology dig in the school yard as
part of their science class. The grade three students are learning about leaves
and are looking forward to their ArtSmart project with the English grade three
students and local artist, Jane Reagh.

Ms. Horner’s grade three and four class is doing
some Thanksgiving writing this week. They are starting a new unit in math on
place value.

Mrs. McCarthy’s grade five and six class had a
lot of fun working on writing their name in 3D in art class. The grade five
students are writing biographies this week, while the grade six students are
writing essays aboutgood governance.
The students are excited to be starting basketball practice this week.

Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high to level two
class had an excellent time on Tuesday on their field trip to Bonne Bay Pond.
The level one and two students are busy this week working on their novel
studies on “The Giver” and “Night”. The students are gearing up to begin
working on their projects for the Intermediate Skills Challenge in St. John’s
at the end of November.

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COMING UP...

School will be closed on Monday, October 12,
in observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday.

Our Scholastic Book Fair Family Night is
October 14 from 6:30-8:30 pm in the school cafeteria.

Our school is hosting a Western
Regional Robotics Competition on October 24th for schools located in
the Western Region of Newfoundland and Labrador. Contact the school office if
you would like more information.